Come see the world from my loft

WITH SOME DOWNSIDES AS WELL

Observing a hummingbird in the azalea just outside our bay window – these amazing creatures really do have a ruby band at their throat.

All the vacation-bound traffic: boats, campers, trailers, RVs. Along with the state troopers, enforcing speed caps. There are somedown sides to living here.

A pile of bricks came along with the house when we moved in. Surprising how useful they’ve been.

How long ago, the realization and description: “She sounds like a parody of teenage upheaval.” It’s a rough rite of passage.

A stage of revision as an Acid Bath – fine lace of reduction opening passages for air. (Revisions grounded in the present more than any past.)

Look to that relationships stuff. Maybe the Proust questionnaires, too.

The next step in nuclear fusion, so I’m told, is to use the technology in conjunction with our existing nuclear waste, depleting those nasty stockpiles – a process that should generate 10-times as much power in combination.

Constitution, Consensus, and Consciousness. How far away they seem in today’s general scene.

From inscription over pre-war German synagogues: KNOW BEFORE WHOM YOU STAND BEFORE YOU PRAY. To wit we might add: BEFORE YOU WRITE or BEFORE YOU WORK.

Public life and business: “We’re sinking into the Abyss.”

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A popular landmark in downtown Boston is the Customs House tower, with its useful clock. Not all of the views are this crowded.